Carole Poirier

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Carole Poirier
MNA for Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
Incumbent
Assumed office 2008
Preceded by	Louise Harel
Personal details
Born	(1958-10-02) October 2, 1958 Montreal
Political party	Parti Québécois

Carole Poirier (born 2 October 1958) is a politician in the Canadian province of Quebec, who was elected to represent the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district in the National Assembly of Quebec in the 2008 provincial election. She is a member of the Parti Québécois (PQ).

Poirier is a graduate from the Université du Québec à Montréal with certificates in administration, municipal services management and public services administration. She also obtained a master's degree in public administration from the École nationale d'administration publique.

From 1997 to 2006, she was the cabinet director for the Minister of employment and social solidarity (1997–1998), the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Metropolitan (1998–2002), the President of the National Assembly of Quebec (2002–2003) and the leader of the official opposition (2005–2006). She was also the treasurer and political organizer for the PQ's Hochelaga-Maisonneuve office.

Electoral record

v t e Quebec general election, 2008: Hochelaga-Maisonneuve
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±pp
	Parti Québécois	Carole Poirier	10,530	54.31	+1.60
	Liberal	Julie Tremblay	4,115	21.22	+7.66
	Québec solidaire	Serge Mongeau	2,508	12.93	+3.26
	Action démocratique	Jean-Levy Champagne	1,303	6.72	-8.82
	Green	Sylvie Woods	817	4.21	-2.88
	Marxist–Leninist	Christine Dandenault	117	0.60	+0.34
Total valid votes			19,390	98.39
Total rejected ballots			317	1.61
Turnout			19,707	47.82	-14.36
Electors on the lists			41,210
Source: Official Results, Le Directeur général des élections du Québec.

External links

"Biography". Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours (in French). National Assembly of Quebec.
Parti Quebecois biopage (French)

v t e Current members of the National Assembly of Quebec

Parti Québécois	Marois Beaudoin Bédard Bergeron Bérubé Blanchet Bouillé Breton Bureau-Blouin Cardin Champagne Chapadeau Claveau Cloutier Cousineau De Courcy Drainville Duchesne Dufour Ferland S. Gaudreault Gendron Goyer Hamelin Hébert Hivon Kotto Larouche Leclair Léger Lelièvre Lisée Malavoy Maltais Marceau McKay Ouellet Pagé E. Pelletier I. Pelletier Poirier Proulx J. Richard L. Richard Richer Sylvain Roy St-Arnaud Therrien Traversy Trottier L. Trudel Turcotte Villeneuve Zakaïb

Quebec Liberal Party¹	Fournier Arcand Bergman Billette Blais G. Bolduc Y. Bolduc Boulet Carrière Chagnon Charbonneau Charlebois D'Amour de Santis Diamond Drolet Dutil M. Gaudreault Gautrin Hamad Houda-Pepin Iraca James Kelley L'Écuyer Lessard Marcoux Marsan Ménard Moreau Morin Ouellette F. Ouimet G. Ouimet Paradis Poeti Reid Rotiroti Rousselle Sklavounos St-Amand St-Pierre Tanguay Thériault Vallée Vallières Vien Weil

Coalition Avenir Québec	Legault Bonnardel Caire Daneault Deltell Dubé Duchesneau Le Bouyonnec Lévesque Marcotte Martel Picard N. Roy Sylvie Roy Schneeberger Spénard St-Laurent D. Trudel

Québec solidaire	David Khadir

Independent	Ratthé

¹ Party leader Philippe Couillard is not currently a sitting MNA.

Persondata
Name	Poirier, Carole
Alternative names
Short description	Canadian politician
Date of birth	2 October 1958
Place of birth	Montreal
Date of death
Place of death

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